UNIVERSITY

OF INFINITE
AMBITIONS.

MASTER
OF SCIENCE
BUSINESS
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
MASTER’S PROGRAMME
BUSINESS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
The two-year Master’s programme in Business Information Technology is an internationally
oriented programme. It is taught entirely in English and you can start in September and February.
The pre-master’s programme starts in September.

WHAT IS BUSINESS INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY?
This Master’s programme covers the areas of e-strategy
and e-commerce, business and IT architectures, IT-based
business models and IT project management. You will
gain experience in designing organizational changes
supported by IT to implement new and effective ways of
working.
The programme offers an environment that enables you
to deepen your knowledge of modern technical systems,
in close collaboration with the fields of Computer Science
and Business Management, and in application domains
like, e.d., Logistics or Health.
IT continues to drastically change the way we live and
work. The Master’s in Business Information Technology
makes you an expert in IT-based business innovation, with
the skills to devise new services and radically improve the
way businesses work. However, IT is not a goal in itself.
On this programme, you will acquire a keen insight into
business processes and organizations, enabling you to
apply IT to innovate and create added value.
The Master’s in Business Information Technology
consistently ranks among the top three Master’s
programmes in the Netherlands. You will be involved in
the work of a research group that participates in the
University of Twente’s world-renowned Centre for
Telematics and Information Technology.

BUSINESS INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY
OF TWENTE
The University of Twente is the only true campus
university in the Netherlands. It offers high quality
on-campus housing and excellent sporting and other
recreational facilities in green and pleasant surroundings.
All this is just a two-hour train journey from Amsterdam.

QUICK FACTS WHY THIS PROGRAMME?

Starting date 1 September or 1 February
Degree Master of Science
Language English
Duration 2 years, 120 credits
Website www.utwente.nl/go/mbi
• Keen insight into business processes and organizations
• Apply IT to innovate and create added value
• World’s leading research groups
• Top three Master’s programmes in the Netherlands
MASTER’S PROGRAMME IN BUSINESS
AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
The programme will prepare you to occupy a leading
position in the field of information systems. Management
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
The Master’s in Business and Information Technology is a
and IT form the core of your training. You will learn how to
two-year programme comprising 120 credits. The entire
integrate and apply your newly acquired knowledge in a
programme is taught in English and features three
broad organizational context, as you develop your
specializations and core courses in ICT management,
communication skills, interpersonal prowess and the
e-commerce, strategy and business process integration.
ability to work in groups. You will be able to pursue for a
A number of electives are directly linked to ongoing
successful career, thanks to your extensive knowledge of
projects in the research groups that contribute to the
IT issues and organizational challenges, your critical
programme, enabling you to further develop your
attitude and your positive disposition towards lifelong
research skills. Others are career electives, designed to
learning and innovation.
prepare you for a role in industry or in consulting.
Business Information Technology has these
specializations:
• Business Analytics; is about the use of process and
data mining for the analysis and possible
reconfiguration of organizations and their IT
infrastructure. It addresses the complexity of applying
‘big data’.
• Enterprise Architecture; with the overall organization
of business and IT. It focuses on business processes,
strategies and mission, and explores how they can be
effectively supported by IT systems.
• IT Management & Innovation; is about the
application of IT in projects in organizations, with the
aim of improving business performance. It also looks
at how innovation can be made possible through IT.
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BUSINESS ANALYTICS
This specialization is about the use of process and data mining for the analysis and possible
reconfiguration of organizations and their IT infrastructure. It addresses the complexity of applying of
‘big data’.

Nowadays all kinds of data are being generated on the

way people use business services, their preferences, how
SPECIALIZATION COURSES
This specialization features selected courses on the
business processes are conducted, how enterprises
methods and techniques necessary to prepare you to
interoperate, and so on. This vast amount of data (often
perform business analysis using explorative and rational
dubbed ‘big data’) can be analysed using process-mining
approaches appropriate to large amounts of data. It
and data-mining techniques that enable business analysts
includes courses on data warehousing and XML
to understand how a business is performing and to
databases, management of big data, empirical research
identify new opportunities. You will get to grips with
and data analysis and simulation techniques, which cover
advanced techniques used in databases that are capable
the techniques and theories necessary to master and
of handling exceptionally big datasets, techniques for
profit from big data.
empirical research used to generate and analyse big
datasets, and simulation techniques that allow the
exploration of new business scenarios before new
systems are actually built.
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ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE
This specialization deals with the overall organization of business and IT. It focuses on business
processes, strategies and mission, and explores how they can be effectively supported by IT systems.

In today’s global and competitive world, an increasing

number of businesses are going in search of seamless
SPECIALIZATION COURSES
In this specialization, you will take selected courses on
collaboration with a view to offering leading services. In
information systems and services. The courses on
this specialization, you will learn how IT infrastructure and
Foundation of Information Systems and Specification of
software systems can be configured to support business
Information Systems have a strong focus on
processes. The methods for specification, design and
methodology, while the courses on Information Services
implementation of information systems will be part of
and Architecture of Information Systems are more
your toolbox as you analyse current enterprise
systems-oriented. These courses complement each other
architectures and their limitations (e.g., lack of flexibility,
and cover the main techniques and systems for enterprise
lack of support for e-commerce and social media, limited
architectures.
security). Using state-of-art theories and modelling
languages you will be able to design enterprise
architectures and optimize the change process. By
aligning strategy, business process and IT architecture,
you will learn how to make IT work effectively. You will
also learn how to use IT to integrate business in a network
of collaborating organisations (a ‘value net’).
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IT MANAGEMENT & INNOVATION

This specialization deals with the overall organization of business and IT. It focuses on business
processes, strategies and mission, and explores how they can be effectively supported by IT systems.

How can IT be applied to deliver a set of high-quality

services to a business? Which software systems should
SPECIALIZATION COURSES
In this specialization you will learn techniques that are
be installed to support particular business processes and
applicable to large-scale IT and software development
services? How can a company’s web presence and use of
projects. Its carefully selected courses relate to the
social media be designed and implemented? Such
application and management of IT in organizations. In
questions have become key in modern companies, so
addition, the course on Software Management addresses
much so that in future, organizations will not be able to
the software development process and software quality.
survive without IT management professionals. This role
requires knowledge of business processes and IT as an
enabler of innovation and change. You will learn how
strategies can be built using IT, and how e-commerce
allows customers to be served on the web through IT.
Using knowledge of finance and techniques from
economics, you will master the skills needed to design a
business case for IT projects. You will study the pros and
cons of sourcing IT globally and the challenges of IT
project management.
CAREER PROSPECTS
Graduates who can bridge the gap between IT potential
and business needs are in high demand in industry,
consulting, research and government. This demand is
expected to increase even further in the years to come.
Exciting national and international careers are waiting for
you!
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Applicants for the Master’s programme should have a
Bachelor of Science in the field of Computer Science,
Information Management, Industrial Engineering,
Business Information Technology or Business
Administration with specialization in Information
Management.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
International students: English-language test results.
Academic IELTS, overall band score of at least 6.5, or
TOEFL, internet based (TOEFL-iBT) of at least 90, or
Cambridge CAE-C (CPE). For the minimum CPGA of your
country, please visit our Master’s website: utwente.nl/
go/master/country-list

DUTCH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES

You may need to complete a pre-Master’s programme
first with a maximum of 30 credits.

For more specific admission requirements, please visit

our website: utwente.nl/master/mbi

ELIGIBILITY CHECK
Our eligibility check is designed to assist you as a student holding a non-Dutch diploma. It will give you an indication of
your eligibility to be admitted to the master’s programme in Business Information Technology. The check will take
about five minutes to complete. Please note that this is not part of the official admission procedure. No rights can be
obtained from the outcome of the eligibility check.

Check your eligibility: utwente.nl/go/mbi/eligibility-check